Scene 17: Coda: Booth, Brennan, and Hannah

[argyle_princess]

Previously . . .

It's been a relatively quiet day at Neptune High. Hannah had no papers due and no tests toay. No major scandals have broken, everyone is still dating or not dating the people they were dating or not dating this morning, no one's been beaten up or taped to a flagpole.

Everyone has just kind of coasted in lunch, which is where Hannah finds herself now, at her usual seat at her usual table (between Sam and Emily and across from Geoff). She isn't quite following the technical details of the story Sam is telling (and Geoff is vehemently if not convincingly denying), about something that happened in their last soccer match, but it's making her laugh anyway.

And then there's a murmur, that spreads across the courtyard the way murmurs do when Something has happened at lunch -- the opening move in the latest round of gossip. Hannah, still laughing, turns to see what's caused it this time.

Well, she wasn't expecting that, and there's a part of her that kind of wants to crawl under the table and wait for it to go away.

Instead she waves slightly to the newcomers on the other side of the courtyard.

They really are lucky she likes them.

Comments

[dr_temperance]

The table jogs slightly as Brennan's foot makes contact with Booth's shin underneath its surface.

"Booth. We are not pressuring or pushing," Brennan warns in a not-so-subtle aside voice.

She would love for Hannah to go to GW. But not just to make them happy.

[paladinsuitsyou]

"Of course not," Booth says, pretending to be offended. "I wouldn't do any such thing."

He grins at her, and then at Hannah. He might have been lectured on this subject before.

[argyle_princess]

"I really don't feel pushed or pressured Bre--Dr. Brennnan," Hannah says.

Geoff and Sam exchange who-are-these-crazy-people looks.

"I still don't understand why you want to go so far east," Emily says.

[dr_temperance]

"Good," Brennan says, but still not without a brief warning look at Booth.

"You have a very good range of options. And while there are notable cultural, not to mention meteorological, differences between the east and west coasts, they are by no means insurmountable."

[argyle_princess]

Sam, Geoff, and Emily are openly staring.

(For that matter, so are the sophomores at the next table, who aren't being half as casual about eavesdropping as they think they are.)

"I'm sure I'll adapt," Hannah manages, but she's now fighting a bad case of the giggles.

This is just surreal.

[paladinsuitsyou]

Booth, having scarfed an appropriate amount of pizza, nods. "You will," he says, then glances at his watch. "We gotta run, Bones. I want to make sure we catch our flight."

Booth's unbelievably anal about getting to the airport two hours before flights. And he gets even worse when flights and road trips are combined in any way.